The Turkey Yelp…Cornerstone of Turkey Language
When you dissect a yelp, you find that it is made up of a high-pitched “kee” note that breaks over sharply into a sound best described as a “youk”. When you put the two [...]
Spring turkey horde
Judy was taking a break from Spring flower work, seated on a swing on the north side of our lawn and on the west side of our garage. I was working on a new treestand practice shooting platform in [...]
What Do Black Bears Eat?
Excerpt from Chapter 1 of The Bear Hunting Obsession of a Driven Man by Bill “BearCrazy” Wiesner Natural Diet of a Black Bear Black bears are omnivores, with their diets varying [...]
Golden Tweezer Award
My buddy Mike and I were on a five-day September bow hunt for pronghorns in western South Dakota. We had high hopes, for it was getting near the peak of the rut. The pronghorn’s, not ours. [...]
The infamous ground shrinkage
An excerpt from from “The Bear Hunting Obsession of a Driven Man” When estimating size and weight, black bears are the most misjudged big game animal in the woods. Bears simply look [...]
Quaker Clock
The inscription reads — “Presented to J & G (last name) on the Golden Anniversary of their wedding with the loving congratulations and warm esteem of your friends and fellow [...]
The Wild Pantry Cookbook – Venison, Victuals, Recipes & Recitations
by Glenn & Judy Helgeland, with favorite recipes and light-hearted stories from outdoor people like you Paperback, comb-bound to lay flat, 140 pages Excerpt: Not even the woodpeckers… A deer [...]
Squirrels … Amusing & Maddening
We have a bunch (call them The Wild Bunch) of gray squirrels on our lawn, leaving only tracks in the snow at the moment, and a couple of little red squirrels. Don’t see much of the red [...]
New book gives readers a taste of Siberian hunting
Book Review by Ken Perrotte in Richmond, VA, Richmond Times Dispatch HOPPING ABOARD an airplane for Siberia during the waning days of the Cold War with the former Soviet Union might not fit [...]
Bucky & Tom Hit The Big-Time
In the late 1990s, when my company still owned and produced deer and turkey expos in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio and Illinois, we came up with an on-site promotional gimmick to please kids attending.